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Books : The Seven Lives of John Murray: The Story of a Publishing Dynasty
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Binding: Hardcover
EAN: 9780719565328
ISBN: 0719565324
Label: John Murray
Manufacturer: John Murray
Number Of Pages: 384
Publication Date: July 10, 2008
Publisher: John Murray
Sales Rank: 28107
Studio: John Murray
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Editorial Review:
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‘Humphrey Carpenter’s history of the firm, completed by other hands after his death in 2005, is an evocation of a vanished age’
(Jeremy Lewis, Daily Telegraph )
‘A treasure-trove of fascinating information paced into Humphrey Carpenter’s riveting history of the world’s longest surviving publishing house …Terrific’
(Val Hennessy, Daily Mail )
'The late Humphrey Carpenter, a delightful and generous-minded man to whose memory I doff my cap, died while still at work on the manuscript of Seven Lives'
(Independent on Sunday )
Product Description:
From the burning of Byrons memoirs, Jane Austens clipped businesslike manner, and the lucrative controversy caused by the publication of Darwins Origin of Species, through to the discovery of the new young poet John Betjeman, the name John Murray has for more than two hundred years been synonymous with challenging, intelligent and progressive publishing.
From its birth in 1768, when the first John Murray of Edinburgh came down to London, each of its seven leaders has made his own contribution to the dissemination of literature and the understanding of the world. One became Byrons publisher and confidante; another began the revolutionary series of Murray handbooks which transformed world travel in the early years of the railways; a third broke controversial new ground with the publication of Queen Victorias letters. So the tradition progressed to the end of the twentieth century, and a list of literary giants including Patrick Leigh Fermor, Osbert Lancaster, Francoise Sagan and Poet Laureate, John Betjeman.
Written in Carpenters rollicking and iconoclastic style, it is an affectionate and vibrant account of the longest-surviving publishing house in the world
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Synopsis:
From the burning of Byrons memoirs, Jane Austens clipped businesslike manner, and the lucrative controversy caused by the publication ofDarwinOrigin of Species, through to the discovery of the new young poet John Betjeman, the name John Murray has for more than two hundred years been synonymous with challenging, intelligent and progressive publishing. From its birth in 1768, when the first John Murray ofEdinburgh came down toLondon, each of its seven leaders has made his own contribution to the dissemination of literature and the understanding of the world. One became Byrons publisher and confidante; another began the revolutionary series ofMurray handbooks which transformed world travel in the early years of the railways; a third broke controversial new ground with the publication of QueenVictorias letters. So the tradition progressed to the end of the twentieth century, and a list of literary giants including Patrick Leigh Fermor, Osbert Lancaster, Francoise Sagan and Poet Laureate, John Betjeman. Written in Carpenters rollicking and iconoclastic style, it is an affectionate and vibrant account of the longest-surviving publishing house in the world
About the Author:
Humphrey Carpenter began his career working for the BBC and appeared on Radio 3 and 4 many times since. He has written many bestselling, award-winning biographies whose subjects include Tolkein, CS Lewis, Ezra Pound, WH Auden, Bejamin Britten, Spike Milligan. He was a prolific author of childrens' book and a skilled jazz musician. He died in January 2005.
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